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Jazz Festival Features Rising Stars

Ellen Reinhardt

Updated: 3 years ago.

This Memorial Day weekend brings the 36th annual Atlanta Jazz Festival to the city's Piedmont Park. Organizers expect more than 200 thousand people to attend the free concerts. The music starts Saturday, May 25 and runs through Monday, May 27th. (artwork courtesy of Charly Palmer for the Atlanta Jazz Festival)

This Memorial Day weekend brings the 36th annual Atlanta Jazz Festival to the city's Piedmont Park. Organizers expect more than 200 thousand people to attend the free concerts. The music starts Saturday, May 25 and runs through Monday, May 27th.

Camille Russell Love, director of the city of Atlanta's Office of Cultural Affairs, says this year they are focusing on Generation Next, the future of Jazz.

She says "We have always presented the best and brightest on the scene and this year we continue that mission with a focus on where jazz is right now and where it's heading." Russell Love says "Audiences will enjoy a wide spectrum of styles from traditional straight-ahead, Latin jazz and swing to jazz flavored with neo-soul, hip-hop, R&B and world music.
As technology brings us closer, musicians are collaborating from all corners of the globe and we're entering a new age of jazz."